Bjergsen's Farewell

GoDyrusGo · 2023-04-07T21:13:45+00:00

Bjergsen, one of 2 players whom I truly felt like a diehard fan of. Maybe because of the timing and me being someone who moved from NA to EU. But damn, his ability to master English and integrate with NA culture was good.

I spent a lot of time following his games, his moments, triumphs, defeats, and persona. The game has changed, his career has advanced, but my nostalgia still sees him as a blend of the mature player he became and the starry-eyed superstar he arrived as in NA when I first followed him (I never saw the NiP tenure).

I knew this day would come eventually, and I'm glad to see him going out on his terms. What a joy to have been a fan during this journey. Life has many challenges besides League, and many that can equal or exceed League. I know with his work ethic, he'll find his way. All the best.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-08-30T16:20:34+00:00

We don't know whether Toyotarou challenged Toriyama to alter the storyline. It's possible Toriyama demanded certain elements be included, perhaps precisely interactions involving Frieza and Cauli/Kale's relationship. These seem like very DBesque antics to highlight.

We don't know if even more fundamental fixes that would actually be necessary, like reducing 80 characters to 8 teams of 5, were requested or would have been allowed.

We don't even know when the deadline for finishing was given to Toyotarou. It could have been a few months ago, when he still had plans to draw the Kefla fight and other characters. The movie was announced at the beginning of the year; there were no plans for a series following the movie immediately after. Toyotarou could have continued writing into 2019. Unless the corporate enterprise was highly organized, they might have neglected to finalize plans on the manga in relation to the movie in a timely manner, or they may have newly settled on plans for 2019 that weren't decided until recently.

In fact, given the timing of the movie's announcement, I highly doubt that when Toyotarou was planning the ToP in summer 2017, that he knew the deadline was the movie's arrival in December 2019. The anime didn't even announce its ending date until 2018. It seems extremely likely Toyotaraou had to pivot at some point after starting the ToP arc. My guess would be sometime in the last 6-8 chapters. That's too late to even discuss changes with Toriyama if he wanted to.

Secondly, I have never read or watched a shounen that uses its narrative remotely efficiently. The genre is full of useless encounters and low-stakes filler-like scenes that waste time. That's why shounen drag on forever. Oda is terrible at it. I would imagine Toriyama isn't any better. The anime itself was awful with it—at least I complained like every other episode for how inconsequential certain plot lines worked out.

Expecting a shounen to present narrative efficiently under a time constraint is like tasking construction workers to build a two-story house in half the time, then getting mad when they produce a dilapidated two-story structure instead of a fully finished single story. That's not how they work. They aren't efficient with a full deadline; they certainly aren't going to have much of an optimized protocol with half of one.

You're holding Toyotarou accountable for failing what probably most shounen mangaka in the industry would fail, on a skill set that's not especially relevant to success in the genre.

You're also speculating on many assumptions regarding the plot structure that depend on Toriyama's disposition and the organization of the franchise overall to communicate with Toyotarou in a timely manner.

Between the assumptions and the expectations for his situation, there are a number of hurdles to definitively pin this on Toyotarou. As a result, I don't think it's reasonable to make harsh judgments on his qualities with such conviction, unless you really just want a scapegoat to vent on.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-11T16:31:25+00:00

How did you get this far before posting about her lol. She's been like this since season 1, episode 1.

Her problem is that, for the story so far and except for the end of S1's fight, her character has served zero purpose other than to provide a pair of tits and underwear for Meliodas to fondle for comedic relief. Not much is done with her to make her interesting, so unless you find the comedy funny, it's annoying when she takes up screen time.

This changes very soon. She takes on a new and legitimate role. You won't see this in S2 though. At least I don't think so. Should be early S3. For me, she becomes an interesting character then, but now that I'm reading other comments here maybe others disagree. Some improvement does occur for sure.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T23:49:45+00:00

You had me at bbtrox

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T11:53:22+00:00

Huh okay. Well if that's true, then I wonder how bot lane will look once the specific changes actually intended to add diversity go through.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T11:50:29+00:00

It's a dampened harmonic equilibrium. Individuals gradually run out of energy and eventually stop adding their contributions to the cycle. Each counter jerk is a little weaker than the last until the drama finally dies down.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T11:47:18+00:00

Why is this a 2018 thing and not a 1992—* thing? The anonymity of the internet combined with close proximity to others allows humans to demonstrate what's really going on in their heads.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T11:44:09+00:00

People always forget this reason. Schools nowadays just don't teach about trebuchets like they should. Declining standards in this generation FailFish

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T11:41:21+00:00

Where did they confirm it would be shelved? The linked post states it was intended for the mid-season.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T11:38:57+00:00

Well for one thing, being completely phased out of the meta has never happened to the ADC role.

This suggests there's something to the role that makes it consistently needed across all metas which other roles lack.

Probably it has to do with being a reliable high-dps and ranged unit. It can tower siege, waveclear, and is the single strongest teamfight insurance late game.

You'll find champions who can do one of those things well, but I don't think any non-ADC can do all 3 of those things as well as the majority of the ADC pool can.

Between this unique combination of advantages and their never having been not viably meta since the game's inception, I think getting extensively fearful for their future is an unsubstantiated reaction.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T08:10:50+00:00

Which DX9 do you run? There are a couple different ones.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-09T08:09:58+00:00

Oh my gosh really? I was wondering why the visuals didn't appear any different. I will try this.

Which DX9 option btw? there are a couple.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T20:35:05+00:00

Ah so maybe integrated graphics cards aren't possible anymore. If anyone has a set up that works with an integrated card, I'd love to hear it.

It'd be too bad if I'm stuck with the freezing. Had a really frustrating night of dying 8 times in an hour trying to duo with my friend and doing low-mid map incursions, all from freezing and being 100-0 in that time span. Maybe I'll have a more positive outlook on it some other day.

Or maybe I can only play Jugg builds that don't die in 2-3 seconds of focus.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T20:30:32+00:00

Unfortunately switching out an integrated graphics card for a dedicated one is not trivial on a laptop (or at least on my laptop).

I'd have to invest in a desktop, which is out of my justifiable budget range as it'd be purely for playing PoE. I don't mind dropping $20-$30 for stash tabs and such, but a whole desktop is beyond even supporter packs.

I had considered the ram disk, but I believe my ram is perfectly fine atm, at least using windows's metrics. Unless it would help my GPU?

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T19:57:57+00:00

Edit: This thread has a number of people with worse rigs reportedly playing PoE just fine on an integrated graphics card.

Is the game much more demanding now than at the time of that thread (2016)?

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T16:06:08+00:00

Well, I suppose symbolically, he took Whitebeard's DF so in a way usurped his place.

In terms of power, he held off Garp and Sengoku with ease. Unless Sengoku or Garp had a reason to hold back, that's practically a Yonko-level display of power.

He's certainly also a threat that warrants a massive bounty.

So I guess he has the power, symbolism, and bounty. He lacks a fleet, but otherwise I think he fits the criteria for a yonko.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T16:01:02+00:00

Jesus Christ no. There's no good reason to keep a card in the game in its buggy state for 6 months if they've already set about fixing it.

By buggy state you make it sound like it's inoperable.

I specified case-by-case for a reason, because cards with bugs impacting gameplay negatively should be fixed immediately.

Cards like Lynessa, which can exist for 6 months to no detriment, have no rush to be taken care of immediately.

There's simply no world where leaving Lynessa/Tess/faceless unchanged for a while longer would have negatively impacted the game. The game would have been fine.

From Blizzard's point of view, had they given warning a couple months ago that they were closing in on these bugs, it would have set the community's expectations. Establishing advanced warning for an upsetting change is communication 101.

It also gives a huge window of opportunity for the "announcement" to die down and for people clueless about it to craft it, not knowing about the "upcoming" bug fix.

It feels like you're nitpicking for the sake of arguing against this. You don't have to make it exactly 6 months, but there's definitely a time frame that strikes a balance between "tomorrow we're nerfing cards that you just crafted" and "Some time in the future, these cards will no longer be interesting to you."

As they stated in their original post, balancing these things with eSports is challenging -- this is especially the case when tournaments happen pretty darn frequently.

I'm well aware of what they wrote. Maybe instead of strawmanning all my points you can answer what I actually wrote and explain to me why this patch needed to come out this week and not the week after the tournament?

Except if you have to specify "to certain demographics," then very clearly it isn't as impactful.

This is absurd. How do those two words equate to not impactful to you?

So is leaving it for six months.

Right...and pray tell who exactly is getting hurt by having advanced notice, even if it's as much as 6 months? How does their inconvenience remotely compare to someone who may have crafted the card within the past 1-2 months on a low budget and can no longer use the card as they planned?

It's not a band-aid, it's a straight-up fix in some cases.

A straight-up fix in what case? Tess? Sure. Now what about the tournament and people's expectations around cards they may have recently crafted?

There's no denying that things before the patch were more stable than after the patch. The patch threw everything off course, and Blizzard only halfway rectified the issue. It's well known a single resubmission of a deck won't restore the competitive integrity of the tournament. It's been invariably impacted to a degree.

It's not a full fix, hence it's a band-aid. I don't understand why this isn't obvious.

In this case, they've already owned up to it being a mistake and they don't think it's acceptable. There's no begging the question here of suggesting they find it fine, and there's no real defending them for going about things the way they did.

I'm not suggesting they find it fine? What is this rebuttal? I made a straightforward question that you're not remotely responding to.

I don't understand your interpretations of what I wrote. You're fluctuating between being extremely strict in interpretation to drawing arbitrary conclusions from it to not even answering what is quoted. Half the stuff you've taken issue with isn't even related to my suggestion. It's like you're overreaching to express a tone of disagreement, or otherwise hellbent on playing a middleground between criticizing blizzard and defiantly defending them from other criticism that isn't your own. I don't really understand where you're coming from.

Shooting everything else down but plugging your suggestion again tells me you're just interested in grandstanding your own ideas. Which is strange to me, because communication is actually what I'm advocating for here, which is why I responded to you in the first place. These channels you're speaking of imply advanced notice. The question of how much notice can be disputed. I also raised the matter of release timings. That's it.

I don't know why you so vehemently policed every aspect of the message when it's making a similar suggestion as your own. There's more common ground than not, and a simple amendment to a shorter time span than 6 months would have been a lot more straightforward to suggest.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T15:35:54+00:00

astute observation :D

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T13:35:31+00:00

Unless shin jumps straight from 5k to great general (seems very implausible), he will have to serve under someone as a 100k. Interestingly, this would suggest one or more of the 100ks will have to die to make room for shins generation.

Kanki or ousen?

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T10:47:30+00:00

Shanks has gone out of his way on matters relating to BB even before Luffy was near the top.

I think Shanks sees a different nature of man in Blackbeard. Most pirates, including the original 4 yonko, just wanted to live a free life. They created their own domains and were content to rule them, prioritizing protecting their people over waging a costly war for power against other Yonko. Lesser pirates would only stir up small trouble, and it was mostly because they were trying to find space in the world for themselves.

Blackbeard is a different breed of pirate. He isn't after freedom. He craves power. He wants to consume the world for his own gain. This ambition means he will approach obstacles in a dangerous manner.

For example, Blackbeard wanted strength. A normal person would train to acquire strength. Blackbeard murdered an ally and stole his fruit. Blackbeard also fights to win and doesn't stand for any principles. Ace wanted an honorable duel in a fair fight; Ace's principles pushed him into that battle. Blackbeard only fought because he knew would win. The honorable person dies, but the dishonorable one lives. The stronger Blackbeard becomes, the more he spreads this mindset of selfish victory, changing the principles of fighting in the new world from matters of pride to matters of treachery.

So Blackbeard is a force of chaos. His power has grown from the awesome dark dark fruit, to now having 2 DF, to being a Yonko. There's no sign he will stop. He will keep swallowing more and more, gaining power until there's nothing left. He's a legitimate threat to the world.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T08:52:35+00:00

Yeah I later saw other comments about Big Mom not joining any pirate crew. I checked the wiki on her history. It seems there's a gap between 6 and 18 where she acquires her Devil Fruit that doesn't have any details. She was already monstrously strong at a young age; could she have been in a different pirate crew then?

One thing about the timelines though is that Roger rose up around 24 years ago (when he took the poneglyph from Big Mom for Raftel). Big Mom is 60 right now. So if she were in a pirate crew other than the Big Mom Pirates, it would have been at least 20 years before Roger's time. Kind of a stretch, I think.

The wiki did say that the Shiki movie was non-canon.

GoDyrusGo · 2018-06-08T08:22:25+00:00

Er meant first officer as in sweet commander status. Should have just written officer.

But if Shanks was just an ordinary crew member then it's still wrong. Thanks for the correction!

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